Ask HN: What is something that doesn't exist that you would pay for?

- Something that irons shirts properly for me.

- An open source, robust, easy-as-Dropbox to use distributed file system that performs well and provides a decent level of security and version control.

- An open source web browser that doesn't suck (not sure that's possible while JavaScript still exists?).

- A self-upgradable eGPU for your macs that accelerates the inbuilt display for gaming.

- A high quality bill splitting & IOU app for iOS that you can take a photo of a receipt then divide up who had what and who paid, others can access the bill and agree / disagree and pay their part.

- A better replacement for WINE that makes running Windows games faster and more reliable on OSX.

- A joystick similar to the thrust master in its simple but low profile design that is useful for space sims like elite dangerous (I've tried the top end Saitek and hate it).

- A service that replaces 'on motherboard' ram like that found in the latest Retina Macbook with larger sized memory chips.

- An efficient, smart and small 240V bedroom heater.

- Service / plugin that circumvents country blocks such as those found on Netflix and YouTube that A) doesn't route all your traffic through it (VPN) and B) doesn't make you use custom DNS servers.

- Hosted Plex media centre with large amounts of online storage and low latency to Australian customers.

- A better, open source Jabber / XMPP chat client for Windows (I don't use Windows's but I hate seeing people run pidgin!).

- Some sort of completely legal, non addictive, non harmful high or low mood creator pill / medical thing. I.e. Want to be amped up and cheerful for a party but don't want to damage yourself to get physically addicted to a 'bad' substance - there's a pill/patch/mouth spray for that. Likewise, something that's not physically addictive or harmful but helps you chill out relax and laugh after a day of work without taking addictive drugs like benzos or smoking anything. I guess I'd like to see more products like Armodafinil.

A service where you can upload photos of shoes that you like / own and will return you recommendations and links to purchase other shoes you may like. Sounds weird I know but there's a lot of crappy shoes out there and when you have a few pairs you really like its often hard to find anything similar.

A better interface to Terraform to allow vendor-agnostic management of VM deployment across many 'cloud' and locally hosted platforms, must be open source, support XenServer, KVM/Libvirt and AWS.

A service that gives incentives to game designers to make their software cross platform.

A modern CMS that isn't based off PHP or JavaScript, is open source, very easy to manage and lightweight to host yet scales well.

An open source competitor to the Kindle with a premium screen etc....

A high resolution, affordable e-ink screen that can be used for reading long articles etc and perhaps clips onto the side of your MacBook or iMac.

An open source, privacy first, distributed social network and communications platform that doesn't suck and appeals to the masses.

A high end wireless AC (at least 1300) mini-pcie network card that is compatible / comes with good quality drivers for PFSense (FreeBSD) with at least 4 aerials to turn your router into a wireless AP.

A modern, high quality, low latency, high throughput switching platform (like Juniper's EX4500 range) that runs an open source OS and manages all configuration in git version controlled eYAML or similar.

A platform like NewRelic and Datadog that is self hosted, high performance and adorable.

A high quality, lightweight web app that you can self-host to stream your music from your Linux file server that isn't all javascripty and heavy, doesn't use Java or PHP - essentially groovebasin without all the hard to get and install dependencies that's self contained and runs nicely across various distros.

More space-western SciFi TV series.

A harmonica that's digital - silent to practise on for everyone around you but you can plug in headphones / your computer and hear yourself play - must feel and act like a real harmonica (support bending notes etc...)

An affordable service that will convert an ebook file to an audiobook.

This:

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine

Barring that, even a little 2x3 set of home/end/pgup/pgdn/delete keys with an adhesive backing and Bluetooth connection that I could stick over the power button on a MacBook Pro to quadruple my productivity.

Even a year in, I feel like I navigate code at less than half speed trying to use the 2-3 key, 2 hand chords that those basic keys require on a Mac keyboard.

Let me jump to the end of a document without setting down my coffee and you can have as much of my money as you like.

I'd pay/crowdfund a Linux Desktop Environment that is as good as OSX one. Some features I'd beparticularly interested are to easier customise the trackpad, drag n drop, anything that makes a good user interface. Not bells and whistles.

A kid I went to high school with created this company Biyo[1] that plans to extend their service to many different fields, including medical, for purposes like this. You no longer will have to fill out medical forms when going to different doctors, no more dropping off cd's or usb's of xrays or other tests to other doctors. I can definitely see this getting to the point where you don't even have to go to the doctors to get access to your medical information. These devices can be placed around town to use like ATMs,and can even replace an ATM.

Your signature would also be nearly impossible to fake, and somebody can't just cut off your hand to impersonate you because that would destroy the signature as well.

[1] http://biyowallet.com

id122015 mentions something like Mac.

I'd rather prefer something along the lines of Mint Mate or Cinnamon, coupled with elementarys funding model. I sometimes send money those directions but once real MS Office gets available on something like this I would test it for work at next opportunity.

Also next time I work at a place that only demands a working IDE I'll go for a Linux desktop. (Last time I had that opportunity I went with Mac and my two last jobs has demanded an MS environment).